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C. A. FLOYD.

HORSESHOE. No. 330,006. Patented Nov. 10, 1885.

UNITE@ STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES ASHBURNHAM FLOYD, OF EASTBOURNE, COUNTY OF SUSSEX, ENGLAND.

HORSESHOE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 330,006, dated November 10l 1885.

Application led March 18, 1885. Serial No. 159,301. (No model.) Patented in England January 10, 1884, No. 1,194; in France May 31, 1884, No.162,502, and in Belgium June 4, 1884, No. 65,383.

To all whom, it may concern.-

Beit known that I, CHARLEs AsHEUENHAM FLOYD,a citizen of England, residing at Eastbourne, in the county of Sussex, England, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Horseshoes, (for which I have obtained apatent in Great Britain, No. 1,194, dated January 10, 1884, in France, dated May 3l, 1884, No. 162,502, and in Belgium, dated June 4, 1884, No. 65,383,) of which the following is aspeciflcation.

My invention relates to a construction of horseshoe of such a forni as to give the horse a firm tread without danger of slipping. For this purpose I make the tread-face of the shoe generally fiat, but grooved with V-grooves arranged as follows: One or more grooves, a, across the forepart or toe, a cross-groove, b, slightly inclined forward a little in front of each heel end, and between these and the toegrooves several grooves o inelining from within forward.

I am aware that the tread-surfaces of horseshoes have been divided by grooves of rectangular section which are oblique but parallel to each other, and also that shoes have been construeted having on their hinder limbs bars or projections inclined to the line of travel and curvilinear ribs forming the toe.

Having thus described the nature of myinvention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I clairn A horseshoe having in its face V-grooves which in the front part of the shoe are transverse and in the hinder limbs of the shoe more or less inclined to the line of travel.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this speciicatiomin the presence of two subscribing witnesses, this 4th day of March, A. D. 1885.

CHARLES ASHBURNHAM FLOYD.

Vitnesses:

J oHN DEAN,

WALTER JAMES S. RERTEN, Both of 17 Graceohurch Street, London. 

